Events/We Ride Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen Cyclo)

We Ride Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen Cyclo)

Road

Date

Sat, 3 Apr 2027

Venue

Oudenaarde / Antwerp, East Flanders, Belgium

Countdown

April

Distance

247km

Total climb

2,200m

Ride the actual Tour of Flanders course the day before the pros do. Four distances, from 79km up to a 247km monster that starts in Antwerp like the race itself. Around 16,000 riders, the spiritual home of the Ronde.

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The course

The route

The 163km route packs roughly 1,800 to 2,200m of climbing into leg-breaking cobbled walls, threading the bergs of the Vlaamse Ardennen before the iconic Oude Kwaremont and Paterberg finale into Oudenaarde.

Weather

Early-April, Oudenaarde / Antwerp

13°CTypical high

4°CTypical low

-5°CColdest in 20 years

36%Days with rain

Highs around 13°C and lows around 4°C, but it has dropped to -5°C. Rain on 36% of days. Pack for the cold end, not the average.

NASA POWER data, 2006-2025, the week either side of race day

Training

Training for the We Ride Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen Cyclo)

We don't do generic plans. We combine deep knowledge of this race's demands with your recent training, then build a plan with you that progresses as you do.

Beina integrates directly with your existing tools to understand your current fitness, and synchronise your planned sessions.

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A day of cobbled walls

Typical sessions

Twenty-plus short steep bergs, many cobbled, punched out of the saddle with little recovery between them.

The Koppenberg at up to 22% and the Paterberg at 20% on greasy setts, often in a crush that forces a foot-down.

Flat cobbled sectors between the bergs that batter your body and try to eject your bottles.

A long day, 5 to 9 hours on the 163km route, in cold and often wet early-April Flanders.

What your weeks look like

Typical sessions

Short hill reps: 15 to 20 x 45 to 90s on an 8 to 15% climb, the core Flanders demand.

Berg sets: 3 sets of 6 x 60s steep punches to build repeatability across the whole day.

Steep-ramp standing starts to restart cleanly when you get boxed in on a cobbled wall.

Long hilly Z2 rides building to 5 to 6 hours, plus back-to-back weekends for durability.

Not a generic schedule

Typical sessions

Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have

Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond

Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo

One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet

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